[PC-BSD Support] Can't set environmental variables that are in .profile

[Dru Lavigne]

> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:48:36 -0400
> From: "Martes Wigglesworth" <mailinglistmember at mgwigglesworth.net>
> To: PC-BSD mailing list <support at lists.pcbsd.org>
> Subject: [PC-BSD Support] Can't set environmental variables
> that are
>     in    .profile
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> 
> Greetings list.
> 
> I have been working on trying to get my Java_HOME variable
> set using 
> /etc/profile, and it seems that that variables are ignored
> when put into 
> /etc/profile or ~/.profile
> 
> Where should I set these variables for use by developers
> working on the 
> system?
> 
> (I have been using linux too long, and have gotten used to
> plopping some 
> executable script into /etc/profile.d . )
 

It depends upon the shell (type "env" to find out the current shell). If it is not reading .profile, it sounds like the shell is csh/tcsh, meaning that the setting would go into .cshrc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell#Configuration_files_for_shells

Cheers,

Dru